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AONBs are managed by their constituent Local Authorities.\r\n\r\nNRW is the designating authority to create any new AONB in Wales or boundary variations to existing ones, however these must be confirmed by Welsh Ministers. NRWs statutory powers derive from the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act (NPAC) 1949 and Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. Any new AONBs designated by NRW would now be under powers derived from the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000.\r\n\r\nFive AONBs have been designated in Wales: Gower (1956) was the first AONB designated in England and Wales, Llyn (1957), Anglesey (1967) and Wye Valley (1971), which straddles the border with England. The Clwydian Range AONB was designated in 1985 and extended by the then Countryside Council for Wales (a predecessor organisation to NRW) in 2011.\r\n\r\nThe data has been held digitally since mid-1990s. The boundary has been transferred to OS MasterMap by NRW and has been subject to joint checking by NRW staff and the relevant Local Authority staff.", "includedInDataCatalog": { "@id": "http://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/json-ld/catalog.jsonld" }, "conditionsOfAccess": [ "access: There are no access restrictions on this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely.", "access: no limitations", "use: \u00a9 CNC/NRW All rights Reserved. Contains Ordnance Survey Data. Ordnance Survey Licence number AC0000849444. Crown Copyright and Database Right. Data may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence providing it is done so, acknowledging both the source and copyright of the owners. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose.", "use: Contains Natural Resources Wales information \u00a9 Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. All rights Reserved. Contains Ordnance Survey Data. Ordnance Survey Licence number AC0000849444 . Crown Copyright and Database Right." ], "temporalCoverage": "2005-01-01/2012-11-23", "keywords": [ { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "identifier": "http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/theme/ps", "name": "Protected sites" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "geographical information systems (GIS)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "identifier": "http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P02/current/HBEX/", "inDefinedTermSet": "http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P02/current/", "termCode": "HBEX", "name": "Habitat extent" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "identifier": "http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P02/current/HBCH/", "inDefinedTermSet": "http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P02/current/", "termCode": "HBCH", "name": "Habitat characterisation" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Cultural Services (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Marine (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Ecosystem (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Coastal Margins (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Semi-natural Grasslands (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Ecosystem Services (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Mountains, Moorland and Heaths (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Natural Resources (Incl. 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